Why did it take four years to hang him, ask survivors – The Hindu

Mumbai police officers Sanjay Govilkar and Hemant Bowdankar never expected to catch a terrorist in their lives. On the midnight of November 26, waiting at a barricade put up at Girgaum Chowpatty, they saw a silver Skoda driving up with its headlights on. The car took a U turn to avoid the cops and smashed into the divider. For the first time Bowdankar, then assistant police inspector and his colleague Bhaskar Kadam fired from their 9 mm pistols injuring Kasab’s companion Abu Ismail.
Govilkar and Tukaram Ombale went to the other side of the car and tried to grapple with a severely injured…